II. Very short question answers.
1. What is loo?
2. Which is the southern most tip of the Indian mainland?
3. What is the other name given to tidal forests?
4. Give two examples of exhaustible resources.
5. Name the special gates built in the wall of a dam.
6. Define compost.
7. Name the "Food Bowl of India'.
8. What is the meaning of the Himalayas?
9. What is the source of hydel power?
10. What is black gold?
Answers
Answer:
1 hot winds flowing called loo.
2indra point was tip of the south part but now
change
3example are petroleum,coal.
8 meaning of the Himalayas are home of ice.
10 black gold is the petroleum
Answer:
1.The Loo is a strong, dusty, gusty, hot and dry summer wind from the west which blows over the western Indo-Gangetic Plain region of North India and Pakistan.
2. The southernmost point of Indian Mainland is Kanyakumari.
3. The tidal forests are called by various names like mangrove forests, coastal woodlands, walking forests in the sea, roots of the sea or oceanic rainforests.
4. . Exhaustible Natural Resources are petrol, coal natural gas, forest and minerals.
5. Floodgates, also called stop gates, are adjustable gates used to control water flow in flood barriers, reservoir, river, stream, or levee systems.
6. Decayed organic material used as a fertilizer for growing plants.
7. Ganga-Brahmaputra delta is known as the 'food bowl of India in light of the fact that Ganga-Brahmaputra delta produces nourishment grains like rice, wheat, maize, beats, and so forth.
8. Himalaya means 'Abode of Snow'
9. Hydroelectric power is produced with moving water
10. Black gold is a term applied to oil or petroleum, which is black when it comes out of the ground and is worth a great deal of money.